Foxx said of DiCaprio's hammer-wielding villain: "Candie is a business man who owns a plantation called Candie Land, and that's where my wife ends up being. We have to get in good with Candie, by me playing a valet for Christoph's character."

Tarantino's Inglourious Basterds star Waltz is playing Dr King Schultz, a dentist-turned-bounty hunter who aids Django in his quest for revenge.